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A Year With iPhone

A Year With iPhone...

It’s been over a year since I got an iPhone. I moved to the platform from an old Blackberry 8300 Curve on the O2 network in Ireland when it was first launched in Ireland. The model is a 3G variety which heralded the dawn of the App Store, Apple’s crowning differentiation in the mobile smartphone market which is already crowded by defunct and useless devices from the Palm Treo to the Blackberry Storm (possibly...
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Higgins’ Failure

Higgins’ Failure...

Joe Higgins, former Teachta Dála and now Member of the European Parliament, has failed in my view to connect with the Irish people at a time when he should have converts in their droves looking to join him on his Socialist quest. The Oxford English Dictionary describes Socialism as: “A theory or policy of social organisation which aims at or advocates the ownership and control of the means of production, capital,...
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Fishing from the Past

Fishing from the Past...

I’ve always been a fan of old computers. New ones too, but there’s something about old computers that I think we all see talent and ability in them all. The Baz Lurhmann song ‘Sunscreen’ has a nice line which I use to describe what I do sometimes with old machines: “… fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s...
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